The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
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The government has released a prior information notice for the procurement of support, maintenance and development services for its electronic Property Information Mapping Service (e-PIMS) platform. The e-PIMS platform currently hosts a ...
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The government is hoping to shore up its defences against cybercrime through post-graduate training,and has asked universities to apply for funding to run training courses for post-graduates. Through the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
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The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at finding software developers to defend critical national infrastructure. The move comes in response to an increasing number of cyber-attacks aimed at ...
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UK dairy farmers this week gathered at a summit in London to air their views on recent cuts in prices to liquid milk and the implications of the cuts. In the US, PepsiCo and Müller made the much-anticipated launch of their yoghurt ...
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The Scottish government is to create a food standards watchdog for the country. The new body will oversee issues including food safety, nutrition and labelling in Scotland. It follows changes to the remit of the UK's Food Standards ...
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The Scottish government has announced its plans to create a stand-alone food standards agency for the region,which will cover food safety,standards,nutrition,labelling and meat inspection. This decision comes two years after the ...
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Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham,MA,USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes,Scotland,UK has been awarded grant funding by the Technology Strategy Board(TSB,the UK government's national innovation agency)that will be used to support ...
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The Corporate IT Forum Education and Skills Commission has condemned the UK Government's decision to scrap the ICT curriculum in schools from this September. Members of the commission,who include large corporations,educators and UK trade ...
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Computer Weekly has launched a programme to recognise the most influential women in UK IT – and we want your help in selecting the winners. Scroll down to vote and see the bottom of the page to find out more information on our ...
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Following opening of the competition last Autumn and closing for applications in December,the'Technology Inspired Innovation'competition for collaborative research&development funding in the UK has now resulted in 43 projects being chosen ...
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The German organization for applied research finalizes a strategic collaboration with Scotland’s University of Strathclyde. £89M Technology and Innovation Centre As first reported by optics.org last November, Glasgow ...
Seren Photonics Ltd,the LED technology portfolio company from UK-based university IP commercialization company Fusion IP plc,has won a 230,000 euros grant from the Technology Strategy Board(TSB),the UK government's national innovation ...
25 May 2012 Seren wins $230k UK R&D grant to speed commercialization of LED technology UK-based university IP commercialization company Fusion IP plc says that its LED technology portfolio company Seren Photonics Ltd (which was spun off ...
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